Hellcat
A hellcat is a special cosmetic variant of a normal cat that can be accessed after starting the Freeing Evil Dave sub-quest of Recipe for Disaster. During the quest, players must visit Evil Dave in his mother's basement. There they must use their cat to kill hell-rats, which have stolen his mother's special coloured spices which are needed to make the spicy stew to free him. After your cat catches seven rats, it will become corrupt by the demonic nature of the rats and will suddenly transform into a hellcat,[1]. Alternatively, killing the hell-rat behemoth seven times will yield the same result. Kittens on the other hand have a chance to turn into hell-kittens on any hell-rat catch. Note that any existing hellcats may need to be placed in a menagerie, or transformed back in to an ordinary cat, in order for subsequent cats to be transformed. A hellcat can be turned back into a normal cat of the same colour it was before the conversion at any time by feeding it a bucket of milk.
A cat at any stage of growth can be a hellcat, and a cat that has become a hellcat will continue to age as normal.[2] To get an overgrown hellcat you have to grow a younger hellcat into one (by having it following you for another 5-6 hours). Players who have completed Ratcatchers can also get wily and lazy hellcats, either by using their wily or lazy cats to catch Hell-Rats, or by taking an overgrown hellcat to Felkrash and having her train it.
Combat stats
When fighting hell-rat behemoths, the king rat or in the Rat Pits, hellcats have the following combat stats:[3]
| Cat |  Hitpoints
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 Attack
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 Strength
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 Defence
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Hell-kitten | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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Hellcat | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
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Overgrown hellcat | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
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Wily hellcat | 12 | 12 | 8 | 2 |
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Lazy hellcat | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
Training your overgrown/lazy hellcat into a wily hellcat
An overgrown cat can be transformed into a wily cat (both normal and hellcat versions) by talking to Felkrash in the Port Sarim Rat Pits. They can also be given a name by speaking to her, allowing the player to input a combination of any six letters or spaces, but no numbers. Note that the name will be used in the RuneScape interface for every wily and lazy cat the player has.
When the wily hellcat eventually reverts to a lazy hellcat, it can be re-trained into a wily hellcat by repeatedly catching rats (both normal and hell-rat versions). Around 15 rats have to be caught before players can expect their lazy hellcat to turn wily again.[4] If the hellcat does not seem to transform after catching rats for an extended period of time, players can pick up their lazy hellcat and re-drop it to reset the 'training timer', as otherwise it may be possible to keep training them indefinitely to no avail.
It is not possible to re-train a lazy hellcat into a wily hellcat using a ball of wool to play with them or by stroking it, only by chasing rats.[5] Likewise, having your cat chase a mouse toy will not transform it back into a wily one.[6] Lazy hellcats are known to have a hidden activity level that is incremented by catching rats, which will in turn increase their catch rate as it is raised higher.[7]
Players are only allowed to have one wily or lazy hellcat out or in bank at a time, in addition to one kitten or adult cat, and as many overgrown cats as they wish. You can however have multiple lazy/wily cats by storing them in your menagerie before training another. Players can store both lazy and wily cats in their menageries. Wily hellcats will not become lazy while in a menagerie.
Dialogue
Changes
| Date | Changes |
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| [[{{#explode:10 April 2006| |0}} {{#explode:10 April 2006| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:10 April 2006| |2}}]] (update) |
The item was renamed from "Wiley[sic] hellcat" to "Wily hellcat". |
Trivia
- As of July 2022, a lazy hellcat, when asked what it wants to do now, mentions visiting the Emir's Arena, which was recently added to the game at this point.
- While the hellcat is following you it will alert you to drop parties happening near by.
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